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Durham Council Respondshttps://northernanimalrights.wordpress.com/2013/03/03/durham-council-responds/
https://northernanimalrights.wordpress.com/2013/03/03/durham-council-responds/#respondSun, 03 Mar 2013 23:14:14 +0000http://northernanimalrights.wordpress.com/?p=190Continue reading]]>Northern animal rights is pleased to have (finally) gotten a response off Durham county council in which they state the following:

we can confirm categorically that the chairman has never spent money on real fur and would never wear real fur coats.

We endure this as recently articles portraying the leader of the council in what we now know to be Fake fur coats in an article over clothing expenses

Northern animal rights asks ALL to cease communications into this matter as we now are confirmed.

Many thanks to durham county council for responding and many thanks to all who complained

]]>https://northernanimalrights.wordpress.com/2013/03/03/durham-council-responds/feed/0northernanimalrightsUPDATED: Letter To Gateshead Metro Centre over use of wild animalshttps://northernanimalrights.wordpress.com/2012/11/14/updated-letter-to-gateshead-metro-centre-over-use-of-wild-animals/
https://northernanimalrights.wordpress.com/2012/11/14/updated-letter-to-gateshead-metro-centre-over-use-of-wild-animals/#respondWed, 14 Nov 2012 18:22:20 +0000http://northernanimalrights.wordpress.com/?p=186Continue reading]]>The Following is a letter Northern animal rights and Animal Defenders International have signed out laying our concerns regarding the use of wild animals “namely Reindeer” by Gateshead Metro Centre Christmas lights Switch on.

Northern Animal Rights Campaign today was shocked to find out that live animals were used by Gateshead Metro Centre during their Christmas day lights switch on.

Animals are often at the forefront of exploitation during Christmas time the use of reindeer’s performing for the switch on is nothing more than animal exploitation.

Jonathon Proctor from Northern Animal Rights ” The fact that the Metro Centre chose to use live animals in their performances is abhorrent.
Animals do not belong to a life of performing at shows and crowded and loud shopping centers

Northern Animal Rights Condemns the metro center for using the live animals in their performances and we urge the Metro Centre NOT to use live animals in any more of their performances.

This is a letter expressing our desire to make an official complaint against the West Yorkshire Constabulary in response to their actions at the Dogs4Us demonstration in Leeds, on Sunday 28th October 2012.We contest that your Officers present at the demonstration were acting as lay agents for Dogs4Us and thus were not impartial.

We back up this accusation with the following arguments.Firstly, your Officers – particularly Sargent 1855 – refused to take our complaints of assault seriously. This occurred when two activists present at the demonstration narrowly avoided being run over by a Range Rover (registration number: L333 LSW).Following this, the driver of the vehicle exited his car and approached an activist (whose megaphone had been struck by the vehicle) in a very aggressive and intimidating manor.

This led to the activist feeling extremely threatened and scared; rendering an offence of common assault. . An elderly lady who witnessed the assault gave a statement after being disgusted at the actions of the driver – this was promptly disregarded by the Officers on scene.

Sargent 1855 smiled and nodded at this and refused to arrest the offender claiming that there were “No grounds to arrest him” which was no true, as confirmed by two Law Students present at the demonstration.

Towards the end of the demonstration, the members of staff from Dogs4Us exited the building which led to the Officers on scene became more aggressive, despite the fact we made no attempt to obstruct or intimidate the staff in anyway.

During their exit, Sargent 1885 pushed an activist from behind with such great force that he fell over onto a staff member; this caused the activist to sustain multiple cuts and bruises to his legs of which blood was drawn. This was witnessed by more than one activist on the scene.

The staff member demanded that the activist be arrested, despite the Sargent admitting the activists that he pushed the male activist in question. When PC 5097 (PC Richardson) approached the victim of the police brutality he was told to get into the back of the Police van and that he was under detention until he agreed to give his details, the Officer had no jurisdiction for this as the Sargent had already admitted to pushing him into the female member of staff.

Over all, we are highly disappointed at the Policing of the demonstration. The Officers present appeared to be extremely biased against the demonstrators as shown by the events stated above. Due to this, we would like to make an official complaint against West Yorkshire Constabulary.

Furthermore, this isn’t the first time such bias against us has been shown. As a result, we will be notifying the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) due to the unlawful and shocking behaviour of the Officers at the scene.

Dogs4us is a puppy warehouse with branches in Leeds and Manchester. They were exposed in 2009 buying puppies from puppy mills and telling a customer whose puppy became sick to, “Take it back for a refund,” as treating the puppy would cost to much!

Campaigners have been holding monthly regional demonstrations aimed at showing Dogs4us customers the truth about where their puppies are obtained.

On 28th October 2012 activists travelled from Newcastle to Leeds to take part in the latest demonstration at Dogs4us: Dogs4us This Means War

Arriving at midday around 25 activists noticed that Dogs4us had hired two individuals to hand out what can ONLY be described as libellous leaflets, the leaflets said we were ALL arsonists and were criminals and were all on bail Dogs4us is really clutching at the straws of desperation now.

Dogs4us staff were aggressive and were pushy (on at least two occasions a reporter was assaulted by the Dogs4us staff); police were only to happy to see us being barged about and do absolutely nothing, and this set the tone for the rest of the demonstration.

Activists were very lively and loud showing Dogs4us their desperation was not working and we would be coming back and growing in strength. Throughout the demonstration nine cars of customers turned away in disgust and two even said they’d be coming to join us next time.

West Yorkshire police failed to act when a Land Rover attempted to run over and kill the protesters. The driver then got out the car and become VERY aggressive with activists, and the police still refused to make any arrests.

After fiver hours of the demonstrating the store closed for the day. The shutters came down, activists maintained the pressure with protest chants as staff left to go home. Yorkshire police decided to throw a temper tantrum and throw activists into Dogs4us staff and then try arrest them.

One activists was detained by police for being thrown into a member of staff by the Sergeant on duty at the demonstration.

Northern Animal Rights and Boycott Dogs4us intend to take legal action against West Yorkshire Police for their blatant bias action, and we are seeking counsel with a view of taking Dogs4us to court over the libellous content of their leaflet.

We encourage ALL to join with the Dogs4us campaign, one of the largest monthly demonstrations happening and we would encourage everyone to join with them.

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Northern Animal Rights Campaign has today been victorious in the removal of Foie Gras at Horton Hotel in Ponteland
The campaign set up a facebook page at 6pm on the 17th October 2012 and by 11pm hotel management sent us the following letter.

Dear Sir.

I can confirm the one dish we were set to serve Foie Gras with in our Festive Menu will now not be served and an alternative dish will replace this for that evening.

We will also no longer be using Foie Gras in ANY of its dishes at Horton Grange.

If you have any further concerns please contact me.

Alistair Mathieson

General Manager

Horton Grange.

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We thank the hotel for taking this decision and we say to them warmly Thank you.

Thank you to ALL those who took part in our Facebook event

One More foie gras free Restaurant in tyneside

Northern Animal Rights

]]>https://northernanimalrights.wordpress.com/2012/10/17/foie-gras-victory/feed/0northernanimalrightsnarnewestCampaign Meetinghttps://northernanimalrights.wordpress.com/2012/10/14/campaign-meeting/
https://northernanimalrights.wordpress.com/2012/10/14/campaign-meeting/#respondSun, 14 Oct 2012 17:03:55 +0000http://northernanimalrights.wordpress.com/?p=143Continue reading]]>Hello and sorry for the lack of updates over the last few months busy times

Northern Animal Rights is hosting a meeting on the Tenth of November 2012 in the center of Newcastle this will be our first official meeting and we hope you all can come

Agenda

Electing a committee

Roles

Facebook, twitter and emails

March against the animal lab 2013

Any Further campaigns

Any other business

We estimate the meeting wont last more than 2 and a bit hours

Please feel free to join us

12pm
Tea Sutra
2 Leazes Park Road,
NE1 4PF
Newcastle upon Tyne,
Their website can be found HERE
The event page can be found HERE

Many thanks and see you there

]]>https://northernanimalrights.wordpress.com/2012/10/14/campaign-meeting/feed/0northernanimalrightsUpdatehttps://northernanimalrights.wordpress.com/2012/09/27/update/
https://northernanimalrights.wordpress.com/2012/09/27/update/#respondThu, 27 Sep 2012 20:25:41 +0000http://northernanimalrights.wordpress.com/?p=131Continue reading]]>Northern Animal Rights Campaign group is currently engaged in several campaigns at the moment hence were not able to post on here very much so this is just a brief update

Northern animal rights and others are leading a Facebook campaign against the badger cull supporting supermarkets

Northern animal rights is also taking part in protests at dogs4us on a monthly basis to get involved please see HERE

Northern animal rights can tell you that the demonstrations against Newcastle university have gone quiet for the moment so we have decided to suspend the actions currently and come back after the badger cull

]]>https://northernanimalrights.wordpress.com/2012/09/27/update/feed/0northernanimalrightsFoot Anstey solicitors “DONT BLAME US”https://northernanimalrights.wordpress.com/2012/09/05/foot-anstey-solicitors-dont-blame-us/
https://northernanimalrights.wordpress.com/2012/09/05/foot-anstey-solicitors-dont-blame-us/#respondWed, 05 Sep 2012 14:53:33 +0000http://northernanimalrights.wordpress.com/?p=126Continue reading]]>Foot Anstey solicitors have cost us our website we managed to get it back on provided we don’t name certain farmers who were involved with the cull

In an email Received 4th September 2012 to NorthernAR@gmail.com
foot anstey play down there role in our website removal and go further to state the NFU Want to debate this is clearly untrue

Foot Ansey’s Letter

Dear SirsWe act for the National Farmers Union (the “NFU”). We have seen your post of 2 September “Silence Now No Abusing the culler’s”. In that post you criticise the NFU and our firm for attacking your right to free speech. The post also suggests that your entire blog site has been affected. We thought it was important that we contact you to clarify what we did and did not ask WordPress to do. We wrote to WordPress asking them to remove the specific post which published contact information for individual NFU members. WordPress told us that they would contact you about the post, and we have heard no further from them.

This is not a question of any attack on free speech. In any case the right to freedom of speech under Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights is balanced against competing rights including the Article 8 right to privacy. Asking that a post be removed which publishes the mobile phone numbers, email addresses and home phone numbers of private individuals is an example of that balancing exercise. In any case, it is our clear view that the publication of personal contact information is a breach of the Data Protection Act 1998, and as such unlawful.

To be absolutely clear, we did not ask Wordpress to take down or suspend your entire site. The NFU’s stance is, and always has been, that it acknowledgeslegitimate debate about the cull: this is after all an important issue for a large section of the community.

Yours faithfully

Foot Anstey LLP

Our reaction to this is as follows

Foot Anstey you represent the national farmers union and you contacted wordpress telling them to take down the content

you have been observing our page now for several days to make sure we dont put it up again

Foot Anstey ARE to blame for the suspension of our website and are now squirming that we bring bad publicity on there heads